February 1, 2016
Research Support Offices Become Holiday Heroes for Leukemia Patient
Feb. 1, 2016 | It was Christmas night and Yogesh Jethava, M.D., was worried. Working the holiday at UAMS Medical Center, he had just diagnosed a leukemia patient’s rare, life-threatening liver disease. The only known treatment was a drug awaiting U.S. Food & Drug Administration approval and not available at most medical centers. What he…
October 15, 2015
Cancer Researcher Published in New England Journal of Medicine
LITTLE ROCK – Identifying a patient’s genetic mutation led University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) physician-researcher Ling Gao, M.D., Ph.D., to an existing drug that eliminated the patient’s stage IV Merkel-cell carcinoma. Gao’s findings, made in collaboration with two other UAMS researchers, were published today in The New England Journal of Medicine. Metastatic Merkel-cell…
September 5, 2013
Junior UAMS Researchers Win Funding for Asthma, Cardiovascular Studies
Sept. 5, 2013 | UAMS researchers Joshua Kennedy, M.D., and Elvin Price, Pharm.D., Ph.D., are the newest recipients of the Translational Research Institute KL2 Scholar Career Development Awards, which will provide them with salary and research support for two years.
August 23, 2013
UAMS Innovations Aid $12 Million Asthma Study
Aug. 23, 2013 | Living human lungs donated to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) are helping a multi-center team of researchers begin testing potential breakthrough asthma treatments as part of a 5-year, $11.9 million study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
UAMS Researcher’s Living Lung Innovations Aid $11.9 Million NIH Asthma Study
LITTLE ROCK – Living human lungs donated to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) are helping a multi-center team of researchers begin testing potential breakthrough asthma treatments as part of a five-year, $11.9 million study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
July 23, 2013
UAMS Wins Prestigious Education Grant
July 23, 2013 | The Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the UAMS College of Medicine recently learned that it will receive $665,000 over the next five years from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to support research training for predoctoral fellows.
UAMS Pharmacology and Toxicology Program Wins Prestigious $665,000 Training Grant
LITTLE ROCK – The Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine will receive $665,000 over the next five years from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to support a research training program for predoctoral fellows.
June 17, 2013
Communication Key, TRI Community Advisory Board Tells Chancellor
June 17, 2013 | Members of the UAMS Translational Research Institute Community Advisory Board recently told UAMS Chancellor Dan Rahn, M.D., that improving health-related communication between UAMS and the communities it serves could go a long way toward improving health care.
June 11, 2013
UAMS Translational Research Institute Awards $300,000 for Six Promising Pilot Research Studies
LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Translational Research Institute has awarded six researchers $300,000 for pilot studies.
June 10, 2013
Time to Act on Disparities, Health Equity Leader Says
June 10, 2013 | Researchers have documented, explained and provided promising solutions for the elimination of racial and ethnic health disparities, but that hasn’t resulted in the urgency or the political will needed to advance public policy measures needed to achieve health equity, said Stephen B. Thomas, Ph.D., the founding director of the University of Maryland Center for Health Equity, during his keynote address at the UAMS Developing Health Equity Leaders Conference.
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